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2 days ago | 
streetmachine.com.au | Kian Heagney
We’re back working on our little two-door TA Torana in this episode of Carnage, as Scotty continues the rust repairs to get the car one step closer to hitting the road. In recent episodes on the TA, you would’ve seen Scotty replace the front floorpans with Rare Spares repair panels and sort out a few other rusty spots around the car. Although the bulk of that work is done, this week’s episode has Scotty finishing off the job.
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1 week ago | 
streetmachine.com.au | Kian Heagney
If you’re a big fan of the Iron Lion and got excited when you saw what’s under the bonnet of Kelvin Mann’s 1997 VS Commodore ute, we’ve got some sad news for you. What you’re actually looking at is a carefully disguised 6.0-litre L76 LS.
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1 week ago | 
streetmachine.com.au | Kian Heagney
It’s a long-awaited episode of Carnage this week, as our ‘Supermang’ VN Berlina – with its troublesome, supercharged 4.2-litre stroker L67 finally sitting pretty up front – hits the hub dyno to see if all the headaches were worth it. In recent weeks, Scotty has been battling the stroker engine at every turn to get it to work. First, a clearance issue with the rotating assembly required a new and smaller Crow Cams camshaft that would play nice with the Mahle pistons and H-beam rods.
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2 weeks ago | 
streetmachine.com.au | Kian Heagney
“MY 1990 S13 Silvia K’s has been the bane of my existence since I got it! I purchased it in early 2020, rescuing it from a shed it’d been sitting in since 2014. It was right before the dreaded spicy cough hit and the market for these car went bananas. She was honest but a bit beaten-up, and I soon discovered the CA18DET it came with was a dud. So, between lockdowns, I swapped in a new marketplace-find CA in a mate’s shed.
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2 weeks ago | 
streetmachine.com.au | Kian Heagney
While photographing Nathan Marshall’s gorgeous ’57 Chevy, we discovered that his 16-year-old stepson, Kale Carter, has a super-cool VS Commodore as his first car, with a V8 and manual to boot! We had a chat to him about the car and his plans to build some wild early Commodores.
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2 weeks ago | 
streetmachine.com.au | Kian Heagney
At the conclusion of another ripper edition of Northern Nats – the ninth running of North Queensland’s premier horsepower party – Dennis O’Brien’s HZ-fronted HQ One Tonner has taken out the top prize of Northern Nats Champion. Since Summernats partnered with Springmount Raceway to run Northern Nats from last year, elite car judge Owen Webb has been tasked with picking a Northern Nats Champion, similar to Summernats’ Grand Champion.
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3 weeks ago | 
streetmachine.com.au | Kian Heagney
The twin-turbo, eight-second VS Commodore ute we call ‘Grimace’ is back in this week’s episode of Carnage, as Scotty gets it ready to take part in the Kenda 660 Series Nightmare at The Bend event this weekend. The last time you would have seen the ute was back when Scotty drove the thing all the way from Melbourne to Canberra and back for Street Machine Summernats 37, where he made 1362hp on the Haltech Horsepower Heroes dyno and finished third in the Boosted V8 class.
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1 month ago | 
streetmachine.com.au | Andrew Broadley |Kian Heagney
Long before the gates were kicked open to Meguiar’s MotorEx 2025, speculation was rife that it was going to be the biggest in the event’s long and storied history. An all-new ‘Worlds’ concept, a bunch of dynamic additions to the program, and the involvement of influencer-cum-billionaire businessman Adrian Portelli all promised to give punters plenty of reasons to hand over their hard-earned in exchange for a ticket.
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1 month ago | 
streetmachine.com.au | Kian Heagney
Each year at Street Machine Summernats, we award the Laurie Starling Memorial Scholarship to a young and upcoming automotive worker who’s shown real promise and innovation in the world of building awesome cars. This year’s scholarship winner at Summernats 37 was 19-year-old Luke Wehbe, who is pursuing his dream as an apprentice vehicle builder with the Ellard family at Image Vehicle Manufacturing.
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1 month ago | 
streetmachine.com.au | Andrew Broadley |Kian Heagney
Here’s part two of our coverage from the Meguiar’s MotorEx elite unveils, which saw the covers pulled off 17 cars infront of a bumper crowd. You can read part one of our unveil coverage here, and here’s the remaining champions who were seen publicly for the very first time. CHARLIE DIXON – HX HOLDEN KINGSWOOD UTEEx-AFL star Charlie Dixon has been playing with cars flat out since retiring from footy, and this HX Holden ute, which was once his grandfather’s farm ute, is his greatest creation yet.
